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Visit website →Microsoft and OpenAI End Exclusivity and Revenue-Sharing Agreement
Microsoft and OpenAI have ended their exclusivity and revenue-sharing agreement.
4TB of Voice Samples Leaked from 40,000 AI Contractors at Mercor
A data breach at AI training data company Mercor exposed 4TB of data including voice recordings and ID information from 40,000 contractors.
Notepad++ for Mac – An Independent Community Port
A native macOS port of Notepad++ has been released as version 1.0.2.
EvanFlow – A TDD-based Feedback Loop for Claude Code
EvanFlow, a TDD feedback loop for Claude Code, has been released.
FreeBSD Device Drivers Book
Version 2.0 of an introductory device driver book for FreeBSD 14.x has been released.
Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)
Released an AI memory that achieved Recall@5 59% on the LoCoMo-10 benchmark.
Fast16: Precision Software Sabotage Predating Stuxnet by 5 Years
fast16, built in 2005, has been confirmed as precision sabotage predating Stuxnet by 5 years.
An AI Agent Deleted a Production Database. Here's the Agent's Confession
An incident was disclosed in which a Cursor agent deleted a production DB via the Railway API.
The Fastest Linux Timestamps
By bypassing the vDSO on x86 Linux, timestamp latency was reduced by 30%.
Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
Introduced a method to mount tar.gz directly as a filesystem in WebAssembly without extracting it.
South Korean Police Arrest Man Who Posted AI Photo of Escaped Wolf
A man who spread an AI-generated wolf photo was arrested by South Korean police.
Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
Spinel, an AOT compiler that turns Ruby into native executables, has been released.
DeepSeek V4 - Almost at the frontier, but much cheaper
DeepSeek unveiled two 1M token context V4 preview models, pushing a low-price strategy.
Meta Tells Employees It Will Cut 10% of Jobs
Meta has informed employees of a plan to cut 10% of its total workforce.
Our Newsroom's AI Policy
Ars Technica has published its AI usage principles centered on human authorship and verification.
Borrow-checking without type-checking
How to handle borrow-checking at runtime in a dynamically typed language
Arch Linux Releases Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Images
Arch Linux has released reproducible Docker images under the new `repro` tag.
Bringing Agents into Teams
How to attach existing agents to Teams using the Teams SDK's HTTP server adapter
Apple fixes bug exploited to extract deleted chat messages from iPhone
Apple fixed a notification cache bug that left traces of deleted and auto-deleted messages accessible.